The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

We cracked up together, which was necessary, because she loved me again.

Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.