So the mathematician and the artist are companioned in the same dark, and do obeisance to the same gods.

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.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.

If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.