In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.
Ik dacht, het is jammer dat we moeten leven, maar het is doodzonde dat we maar één leven krijgen, want als ik twee levens had gehad, had ik er eentje met haar doorgebracht. Dan was ik bij haar in de f...
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing. So what's something? Being reliable is something. Being good.
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the dest...
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
And when the blush of a schoolgirl's cheeks was mistaken for the crimson of a holy man's fingers, it was the schoolgirl who was called hussy, tramp, slut.
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act....
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conv...
Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator of fecal contamination) and between 39 and 75 percen...
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!
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...
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a ba...
I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once. Huh? It said, 'Oeuf.' What is that? It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?
Fusese deja o seara grea. Se intamplasera volume, asa cum se intampla acum volume si asa cum se vor intampla volume.
She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.