I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

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.

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.

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

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges.

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.

People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.

My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Walt Disney was my great hero.