All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

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

Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.