You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes one's subject - these are important questions.

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.

The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real

When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.

You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

[Matt] Lindland looks just like 'Woogie' from 'There's Something About Mary', how am I possibly supposed to take this guy seriously?

I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.