Anne Lamott

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.