Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life ... - Anne Lamott

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.

Easter says that love is more powerful than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer, bigger even than airport security lines.

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.