I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of destiny.

Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.

The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.

A lot of military kids make a lot of moves but I only made the one, so it wasn't really an issue for me.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.