The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.