Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

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.

Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It's useless really.

It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.

It’s easy to fall in love online with someone you’d slide away from on a bus stop bench. A little too damn easy.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.

I have as much fun as anybody I know.