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

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.

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

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?

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.

Live your dream. Do what you came here to do.

I've always been open. That's made my resume. I go with what happens, and then I try to make good choices with what I get offered.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

You won't get hurt skiing if you don't fall.