There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me and my experiences.

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.

It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.

But for the first time, Boaz couldn't think of a single word to describe this kind of loneliness, so scary and real it required an entirely different language, new and strange and yet to be invented

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Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

Men love newfangleness.

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.