The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

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.

In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none.

An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. A great entertainer needs to have charisma.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.

Life is the offspring of death.

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

There’s 3 types of fans. There’s the ones that scream, the ones that want to talk to you and the ones that don’t speak at all.