I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Every life has a file, if you will.

Bad literature is a form of treason.