Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.'

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.