With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.

Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.

Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood.

The are timesWhen you may think that people are staring at you -They are.

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.