Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

People aren't universally heroic.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.