Anne Lamott — American Author born on April 10, 1954,

Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer... (wikipedia)

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.