Now that we are born, let us live in a trance.

In failure, you begin to lose friends. In success, you lose most of them.

A writer observes you far sharply than others and therefore you find your traits in a book.

Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I heard her scream one night while she was sleeping.Heard but didn't see.When I turned, there was nothing.No one.Only darkness.But I know what I heard.

If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist Jew in every moment of my life.

For heaven’s sake, if you don’t know someone’s name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say, “Nice to see you!” and make weak eye contact.

As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.