I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. "In this town it wouldn't do any good " he explained. "I happen to be a chain breather."

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'

I happen to be a chain breather.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.

He couldn’t stop the grin that spread across his face. Who knew Miss California would be good in a bar fight.

And you, you’re an angel, ’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you.

When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you don’t change the hearts of others you change yours.

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.