Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

I think the guys that are successful might be a little more relaxed and able to deal with the distractions.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

Hopefully, we're still living in the land of second chances.

Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced.

Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God.