I felt there’s a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I’d be a jerk not to take advantage of it. - Herman Wouk

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn’t there at all, just a cold cloud.

There is a mystery about the Jews … and within this mystery lies the reason for the folk pride of the house of Abraham. This pride exists despite the disabilities that come from many centuries of ostracism.