Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.
The very rich only admire themselves
Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all.
It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.
To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.
I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.
Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.
Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.
To the royal guards of this realm, we are all victims in-waiting.
The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.