I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.

I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.

Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.

I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.

Memory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.

But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness.

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you’re trying to be sneaky.

A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.