It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.

I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".