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.

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.

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.

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.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

True expectations never ever go unnoticed. So expect happiness and expect abundance.

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.