"Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother."
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."
"Laughter is carbonated holiness."
"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."
"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."