The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

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.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

If the beloved is everywhere, the lover is a veil, but when living itself becomesthe Friend, lovers disappear.

I changed jobs like I changed shirts. It was something I just like to do - I like trying my hand at everything.

If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.