“If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.”

You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.

I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?

There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.

Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.

I’d like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

You know the marks of my skin better than anyone else. I’d be lying if I didn’t say you’ve made a few yourself.