My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

Every fear hides a wish.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

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

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.