I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

My greatest friend is truth.

Intuition is the compass of the soul.

The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.

I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.