I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

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.

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

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

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?

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

...I experienced a sudden ache -- part desolation, part panic -- to observe the speed with which this mate, this familiar, was transforming herself into a separate person.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.

The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

The expression of divinity is in variety.