"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."
"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."
"Laughter is carbonated holiness."
"I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus."
"We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children."
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."