I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.

He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?

No I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you ever.

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.