I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

Let's hope the first comes first.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees