People aren't universally heroic.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

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

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.