The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav.

I am learning to flow with rhythm of nature.

Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.