It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.

There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me and my experiences.

But for the first time, Boaz couldn't think of a single word to describe this kind of loneliness, so scary and real it required an entirely different language, new and strange and yet to be invented

Something terrible happens to people who don't create, something poisonous. Creating is a necessity for all humans, like breathing. If you don't do it, you suffer.

The greatest victory a person can have is the victory over himself.

Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.

There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else.

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.

I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.