We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.

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.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes. (on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

[Numbers] made me feel like a real person instead of a guy who shows up for two days on a movie, does some funny stuff, and then doesn't see anybody until the premiere.

God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.