The same as a cigarette?" asked Rita excitedly, as Mrs. Sin bent over her."The same, but very, very gentle.

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've gotCould see all kinds of things other people could not!So then why get upset if somebody like meTries to look at the world just a bit differently?

One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

To think that Donald Trump could have his finger over the big red button is absolutely terrifying.

There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

I love what I call "re-imagining," where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way. It's not the most efficient way to write a book, but it's how I find the story.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.