As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.

I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible

I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

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