I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

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'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

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.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuitNone of it is math.

Set a goal. A personal goal. Then achieve it. Forget about what others say. Their opinion does not count. Just do it.

Now is the time to move this country forward.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances!

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life.

[A-listers] ended up abandoning Hillary [Clinton] more than they abandoned [Donald] Trump.

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.