Grace is having a commitment to- or acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. - Anne Lamott

It's better to be kind than to be right.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.