I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums.

In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.

What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.

About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.

I think . . . you should have children, John." At least he's no longer talking about bugs."I'm too young, Dad.""It's the most important thing . . . I've done in . . . my life.

Marrying a woman who was reckless must have been the ultimate reckless act, requiring a lifetime of balancing to keep both of them safe

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.

If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.