Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.
You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.
Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …
I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.
If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.
From the great Jack London: “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” What inspires you?
There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.
I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
A lot of the differences between people have biologic underpinnings. Now, we have a dogma of egalitarianism. Everyone's the same.
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.
I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.
I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.
