I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

You cannot learn to curse like an American.

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC

Bed rest and a large steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up.

Home does not have to be a place, but a feeling. Once one figures out how to find this feeling in multiple places they will always feel at home with them self.

But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

I feel like the worst fashion moments of the '90s were kind of the best.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

I want to help the Brazilian National Team the best way possible, whether is with goals, assists or even a slide tackle, whatever.

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.