I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.