I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave "bye-bye" to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!

No time for happiness, no time for sorrow. Work is the best of physicians.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time.

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

You can't underestimate anyone.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.