Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

Spirituality is, ultimately, about what we do with that desire. What we do with our longings, both in terms of handling the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality.

I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)

... everyone must play his role.

I don't sleep with happily married men.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

Like everybody and trust no one.

I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Grace and mercy are never deserved.

Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.