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

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?

A man of suffering is familiar with pain.

The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea.

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim