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.

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.

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 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.

Some people come in your life and make you believe that your life is incomplete without them. Then they leave, creating a void in your heart that may fill back with time but will never be complete.

Embrace each day with a warm heart and a big smile, because every gift of a new day is truly a big blessing.

Instead of magnifying the problem in your thoughts, magnify God.

Revenge is starting a fire you can't control.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

I'm in a New York state of mind

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.