It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they w...
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's...
You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.
When you're a dad, there's no one above you. If I don't do something that has to be done, who is going to do it?
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that...
There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo... Nada la conmovía. (...) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realidad....
Long before man traveled into space, rabbis debated how one would observe Shabbat there-not because they anticipated space travel but because Buddhists strive to live with questions and Jews would rat...
Lo que olvidamos de los animales es lo que empezamos a olvidar de nosotros mismos.
In Ukraine one cup of coffee is five dollars!
If god exists, he is not to be believed in.
I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.
I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example,...
He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of u...
Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.
She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
[...] I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life [...]