Change yourself and your work will seem different.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

The world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also that by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world. That is why God created the letters of the alphabet, that we might have the opportunity to narrate to him what he created. Reb Mordke always chuckled at this. "God is blind. Did you not know that?" he would say. "He created us that we would be his guides, his five senses.

The flight attendants, beautiful as angels, check to make sure we're fit to travel, and then, with a benevolent motion of the hand, permit us to plunge on into the soft, carpet-lined curves of the tunnel that will lead us aboard our plane and onto a chilly aerial road to new worlds. That smile of theirs hold - or so it strikes us - a kind of promise that perhaps we will be born anew now, this time in the right time and the right place.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

The key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.