So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.

We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.