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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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