Even before the kids are born, you've go to make these decisions. If it's a boy, do we get him circumcised? If it's a girl, do we keep her?

There hasn't been a more effeminate Jew in the closet since Anne Frank.

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72 virgins, maybe it's a 7-foot-2 Persian.