“Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.”

“That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.”

“You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.”

“Time defines sacred events.”

“May you find the possibilities in every moment.”

“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along...”