The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.