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.

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.

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

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 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.