Worship good editors. They save you from yourself, from your blind spots, and from your weird little habits that you think are charming but actually … - Anne Lamott

If you sit down and you start writing, it's like getting in very cold water and you're in. You might as well paddle around for a minute.

I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while —