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

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.

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.

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him.

God’s ways are not our ways. They are beyond our understanding.

the way it always did.

The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering from discrimination.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.

Then I'll come,' said Tessa, 'I've never been on a train.' Will threw up his hands. 'That's it? You're coming because you've never been on a train before?' 'Yes.

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist? Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you!

I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.