Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Discovery is the joy.
Judaism is in all my books.
American history is not clean.
Sleep: the stepchild of Death.
Screw every known human culture.
The Army was my bread and butter.
Would you risk your life for love?
The law is above the law, you know.
We have met the Alien and it is us.
Translation is an act of recreation.
Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.
No one really wants to be laughed at.
I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
Life is a series of random collisions.
Andrea Schulz became my editor in 2009.
Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.
What man has done, man can aspire to do.
I never listen to music when I'm writing.
Change the problem by changing your mind.
I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.
Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.
The collective memory of America is short.
I have friends who read my books in Greek.
No book of mine is complete without a dog.
No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.
Writing is the only way I know how to pray.
No sense in talking tough unless you do it.
You can hurt people's feelings if you laugh.
Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
In relationships it is best to assume nothing.
The reason men rule is because women let them.
A life postponed too long might never be lived.
We only really learn in conversation after sex.
Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.
I'm very interested in foundational narratives.
I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.
You never know you're in a bubble until it pops.
Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt.
Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.
The American identity is mind-bogglingly various.
My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity.
Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.
Most of the things one worries about never happen.
To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive
Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.