You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.
As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
It takes two men to make one brother.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.
I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.
Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
The communication has evolved to such a degree that kids under 25 can connect to each other so quickly and so immediately that they really don't have the patience or understanding for inherited rhetoric.