My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

If you're tired of triviality, maybe it's time you changed your life.

One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

Trump said today that if countries are going to have nuclear weapons, then he said the United States needs to be at the top of the back, in his words, meaning increasing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians