The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.
'He is very ugly,' said his mother.
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me
Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.
I am the skeptic of skeptics.
The more wants a man has, the less freedom.
. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
Ive always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.
I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said that you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. )
. . . we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.