“Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.”

“Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.”

“A still tongue keeps a wise head.”

“Je pense, donc je suis...Descartes”

“Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a “gift,” was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before—one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.”

“She understood in life that a person was only allowed one trip down to hell.”

“The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.”