For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.
What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Get up, you useless lump, get up!
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.
I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'. . . I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.
Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?