[Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.

Oh, the quiet moments alone with God I sacrificed in order to cross a few things off the to-do list I worshiped.

We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.

You cannot taste the oil until you pour out the vinegar.

She can feel her vanished talent like a phantom limb, the empty ache of its subtraction from the short list of her assets, and she knows with spiteful certainty that it is gone for good.

Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

A lot of pictures of yourself - you know, it's a little narcissistic.

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

There's a reason why the form was originally silent

We are created by being destroyed.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.