The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.

Death is the final destiny of the human race.

Video games are like a religion; you want to get people tattooing your little logo on their body so they’ll get somebody else interested in it too.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.

Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.

Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.

I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.