this free-man's prison known as life.

If you really want more, then cross the door and get to the shore. -RVM

Rocket science only needed when we build rocket.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

Fashion starts with fashionable people.

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.