A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anythin….

The perfect bacon sandwich is on white bread, very soft and very thick. Sourdough with a good crust. The bacon is half way to being crispy - and ther….

Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and w….

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success..

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for refer….

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur..

How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minut….

It's never over till it's over with a friend..

Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames ha….

What it is to see, what liberties are taken when one looks, where looking leaves one vis-a-vis one's subject, or how far looking ultimately becomes o….

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it..

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen..

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select..

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?.