Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.