Quotes from Andre Aciman

My vacations last one hour. Then I get bored, impatient.

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

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.

Egypt wants to be young again. Israel must show it never grew old. Egypt wants to wake up and dream again. Israel must learn to dream though it cannot sleep.

Writing plays fast and loose with the past.

I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.