It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him.