We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's.

I think that initial independence is very important that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.

It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.