Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy, joining arm in arm against change.

Little deeds of kindness little words of love Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.

Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.