The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

We can't get the power of will with a pill." -Serena Jade

Be happy for what you have.

Find something you love and do it better than everyone else.

There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

Don't be so scared of dying that you stop living.

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.