As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we woul…

- Elliot Perlman

When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become …

- Elliot Perlman

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

- Elliot Perlman

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each …

- Elliot Perlman

You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom o…

- Elliot Perlman

Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.

- Elliot Perlman

He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights o…

- Elliot Perlman

There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is o…

- Elliot Perlman

The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can s…

- Elliot Perlman