"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?"
"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …"
"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
"I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water."
"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."
"In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place."