If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.

What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.

Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.

It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.