He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic.

It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

...Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.