My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

People who say it cannot be done should have an encounter with God. Through God all things are possible.

I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

No matter what you're going through, there is no temporary feeling or circumstance that can take away the core of who you are.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.