Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

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

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.