Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Jimmy Carter is not loved in Israel, and yet no American president gave them a greater gift than Jimmy Carter gave them with peace with Egypt, and the opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

If we're talking about Sinai, we can't understand it without the 1967 and 1973 wars, and you can't understand it without the biblical story of Moses leading his people through the wilderness. These are essential elements in the modern conversation about what's going on in the Middle East that seem to have been lost.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.