“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”

“The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.”

“A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”

“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”

“Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.”

“History has no more validity than a novel.”

“Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”

“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel…”