It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

I’m not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.

It is wise to know God.

They wanted her. They all loved her. And they wanted to keep her.

With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out.

People should be suspicious if every decision was unanimous.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

It is an utter shame to spend millions on the sanctuaries while millions are dying of hunger! Institutional religion must go to Hell even only for this infamy!

In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other.