Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

...you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

He's completely complicated. And lost. And frustrating. But we do something for each other. . . . We fit. We need each other.

There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability.

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.