The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

She was so wound up that she reacted before she thought twice about it and stabbed him. "Damnit" he said between clenched teeth. His fingers tightyened around her wrist. "Stop doing that.

A friend is someone who will bike to the ice cream shop with you, even when you don't look so good.

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

And go we all must, with a healthy lust of books we trust.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.