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.

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

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

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.

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

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.