In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try not to let the research become an excuse to not do the writing part.

You can strike out at people, Strike off your business but you can not STRIKE down someones dreams because you can not achieve yours~bns

To be restored to Christ is to know a fulfilled life

Mark the perfect man and behold the upright.

I ain't going to bump no more with no big fat woman.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.