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 writ… - Anne Lamott

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

The Dalai Lama said that “religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.