Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

We need to listen to one another.