Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
I shop more than most women.
I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
