Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

It's not the way I wanted to spend eternity with the man I love, but it will have to do. At least we are together.

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith even so is he.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.