The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

Isn't it strange that most of the people who find it very difficult to forgive others, are usually the same ones who expect others to forgive them for their wrongdoings?

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

It's clear your marriage is a happy one Your love is solid to the core May the years ahead be happy ones Each one happier than before

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.

I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.