I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so we made our own. That is feminism to me.

Considering yourself a feminist doesn't make you one. Being an empathic human who can see both sides of a coin is feminism's true essence.

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

what can be the best way to express emotions, if not literature

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.