People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.