The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.