What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.

I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.