Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.

Mothers are multi-taskers.

Somewhere along the line we stopped trying to fix the child that we had expected and started to enjoy the child that was.

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.

A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

Don't mistake niceness for weakness.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.