I've wasted a lot of time pretending to be interested in people who weren't terribly interesting.

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.

You’re the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell.

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

I know where I'm putting my money.