I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

Words are more thoughts

Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes.

I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

I use omega-3 oil. I love light oil on my skin. It's one of my favorite feelings in the world.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

Never wish the death of someone or you will lose your goodness inside you!

Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.