I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

If we are indeed created in God's image, then we, too, must create and then we, too, must rest.

For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.

I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.

For me, study is a divine and daily imperative, and I study a page of Talmud daily so that I am not only teaching. My teaching is constantly being fed by my learning.

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

In order to survive, the human race must defend itself.

I love going to synagogue on Friday night and being swept in the melodies. Everyone seems more friendly and unburdened by the week and ready to be taken elsewhere.

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.

There is a price to pay for accomplishment.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.