[describing Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge] She was just a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore.
[asked, shortly before her death, if she believed in an afterlife] Yes. I can't imagine how it might work. However, the universe is not limited by what I can imagine.
Illness strips you back to an authentic self, but not one you need to meet. Too much is claimed for authenticity. Painfully we learn to live in the world, and to be false.