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.

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

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

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

with each measured step, we knowthis earth is only as solidas we are.

We must pray for our leaders, to rule in righteousness.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.