The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

She doesn't quite chop his head off.She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.