Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes