If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.