For many young girls, [Barbie is] their first association with fashion and dressing up and changing clothes.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

When the wind is against you, like a kite, have your chord of faith rooted and you would fly highest ever.

As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

Any woman's death diminishes me.

Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

Generosity is the best investment.

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.