Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?

Dare to dream.

No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

I believe in giving back.

Families are the treasure of heaven.

We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.