As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

Every now and then we find a special friend, who never lets us down, who understands it all, reaches out each time you fall, you're the best friend that I've found.

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.