I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

The people who are happy for your happiness and sad for your sadness... keep them around.

God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.

Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy

I'm a dumb guy. My point of view is limited.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they hear it and don't like it, that's totally fine.