It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.