...when we cease asking questions, when we stop being self-critical, and when we no longer engage with others, then we surrender our ability to grow--to progress. Let's begin the conversation.

The best thing you can do for yourself if you wish to see your dreams become reality is to find success and replicate it.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.