"I literally didn't have time to pick up the passport that was two feet away. I just grabbed my mother's cat, raced into a car and drove down the driveway, not thinking that the car was probably the worst place to be."
"I could see the flames systematically making their way through our living room, and then moving down to my bedroom where all my childhood mementos and photos and toys were, and then going on to my office and then really reducing my next eight years of writing my next three books were all in handwritten notes to ash."
"It was the fact of being stripped down to nothing that made a Catholic monastery a seductive place. Suddenly in the monastery I realized I wasn't the center of the world and that the sort of 'me' part disappeared and the world part became very strong."
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