Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.

I have always thought limousines make me dreadfully uncomfortable, just the way that suits do. When I wear a suit, I feel like ants and termites are crawling all over my body. It's really, really uncomfortable. People put themselves in a kind of prison. It's like the world of the embassies.

I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.