In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.

One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as it is something that comes to you, or that presents itself.

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly.

I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.

We were never meant to be baby, we just happened

It feels good to know that I am safe and I am loved.