and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against.

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.