A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind.
The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
One reason writers write is out of revenge.
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
I like musicals and I love music.
By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways. . . our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself. . . 'Are there things I'd like to change?'
I have a dress fitting to get to at three. ' (Simon) 'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.