For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.

If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.

It's not facts that hurt people, it's their attitude towards facts.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

We're all working together that's the secret.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.