It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.
It is said that the Messiah will come at the end of the world. But it was not the end of the world, Grandfather said. It was. He just did not come. Why did he not come? This was the lesson we learned...
It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.
It hurts me when you do not want to hurt me.
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- I'm easy; I'll eat anything -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
Ignoro las veces en que después de decirle a alguien que soy vegetariano, él o ella intentaban buscar una incoherencia en mi estilo de vida o trataban de buscar un error en un argumentación que yo no...
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a...
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
I'm a vegetarian.You're a what?I don't eat meat.How can you not eat meat?I just don't.He says he does not eat meat.What?No meat?No meat.Steak?No...Chickens!No...And what about the sausage?No, no sausa...
I' was the last word I was able to speak aloud, which is a terrible thing, but there it is, I would walk around the neighborhood saying, 'I I I I.' 'You want a cup of coffee, Thomas?''I.' 'And maybe s...
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
I was thankful, said my father, for the make-believe.
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.
I once went to report on a village in Russia, a community of artists who were forced to flee the cities! I'd heard that paintings hung everywhere! I heard you couldn't see the walls through all of the...
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love,
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
I had to do it for myself.
I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.
I am not a bad person, he said. I am good person who has lived un a bad time.