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.

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?

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.

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

The free soul finds ease in cage.

Miracle centered gospels cripple the present and generations to come.

It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.

It's a happy relationship when it's easy and when there's that trust and love and no jealousy or games or anything.

People ask me for my autograph after a show. I'm not famous, I think they're messing with me. I think they're trying to make me late for something.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

I typically have a martini.