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.

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

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.

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

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

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

For Jesus, it was about the Father and us. It was not about Him. Could we say the same about ourselves? From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing.

My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.