When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expe... - Anne Lamott

"Laughter is carbonated holiness."

"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."

"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."

"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."

"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."