Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

A thankful heart, a grateful soul.

I’ve never been one to go to church, but I’ve al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.

There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope for the soft marrow abi-deth in the hard bone.

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.