I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

The greatest success is to live the life of your dreams.

A steady flame unwavering & honest

There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.