Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.

In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is.

True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.