Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind. - Anna Quindlen

I haven't lost my faith, but I've lost my religion. I still believe in something so deeply. ... I've never really gotten past that quote from Anne Frank in her diary, where she says that people are really good at heart. But I feel like the Catholic Church — no — the Catholic hierarchy has been disinviting people like me, and especially women like me, for so many years that I finally took the hint.

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.