Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Suicide kills two people.

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.