My idea of "goodness" had to do with belonging in a small yet reciprocal way to something huge and beautiful beyond my understanding.

A claim that event horizons exist is like someone's claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.