Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

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.

Don’t ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'

Africa is God's country, and He can have it.

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.