“Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?”

“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”

“I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.”

“If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.”

“I'll drop you back to test driver so fast it will make your bra snap.”

“We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.”

“You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.”