You know how they say a man's house is his castle? I think for a woman, it's her body. I feel so strongly about a woman's right to choose. This is my Zionism. It's not a "right" any more than it's a right to breathe, to take in oxygen.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.