"Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of."
"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens."
"I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus."
"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."
"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."
"Laughter is carbonated holiness."