The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close.

We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing

True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad.

Sometimes we walk away from our big dreams; but then, this time our big dreams don't let us to go away!

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.

Be at your best at all times.

I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.