I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.

Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: "Follow Me!

Loving everyone does not mean everyone will love you. Love everyone because you want to expand your world.

It's time to rise to the challenge and push beyond that pain and receive your blessing. You are truly favored by God.

I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Love is a decision, not just an emotion. It is selfless, and a commitment.

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.