The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.

Home is where your books are.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.