The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold.

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.