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?

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.

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.

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