To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.

The journey to the center of your soul doesn’t start in your heart. It begins in your brain, and taking it makes you among the bravest of the brave for it’s a place only the rare dare venture.

Sneakers are not my thing.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

The media's trying to attack my administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made and they're not happy about it for whatever reason.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

The idea of improvisation kind of freaked me out.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

There's nothing in the 14th Amendment about anchor babies.