It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there's a shallowness there. That's not a bad thing, really.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.