In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

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.

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

You need intensity to be quick

Who you are is what you wish to be.

We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?