I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

Stop rejecting that unique pathway that was designed exclusively for you. Embrace your destiny, respect yourself and love others.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.

The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.