Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

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

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

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.