People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

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.

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.

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

My fear of the Lord is Satan´s weakness.

Aures habent et non audient' - 'They have ears but hear not

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.

Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.