Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.