New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

God can only relate effectively with you when you relate with people

Dreams are what gives us insight into what may be if we have the get up and go to do it.

Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.

Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.