A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.