Andre Aciman

My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most. ”

Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft. ”

In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed. ”

Chaste love happens all the time, far more frequently than adultery. ”

I like to read the paper online. And I love email. And I love nothing better than to be interrupted. ”

An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss. ”

Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps. ”

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos. ”

Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours? ”

For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know. ”