My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.
We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty in the key of loss.
Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.
There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.
Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.
Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps.
I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.
Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know.
There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.
'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.
'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.
Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.
In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.
We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.