The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.