Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Religion separate people while the issues of life that all people share in common, bring them together.

Who am I without God on my side? Absolutely nobody. A life without Him, is a life without a direction.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

I do things every day for my birthday. I'm just not a party girl.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.

If we had not met, that day, I think I would have imagined you somehow.