independence Quotes

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers and doctors. They wanted us out of the religious thing, apart from that ethnic bonding.

The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.

There's no law that says you have to be consistent in your preferences.

You can have your country and be pleased to welcome others to it. You can have your country and still enjoy living elsewhere.

Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.