Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there's a shallowness there. That's not a bad thing, really.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Failing over and over again is how you learn to succeed over and over again.

Everything will be okay as soon as youare okay with everything. And that’s theonly time everything will be okay.

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

When I stand strong in youI can look beyond the cloudsWith your wordsThe sun will rise again

I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].

To believe is to become what you believe.