I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.
Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.
The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.
While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.
At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.
Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.
Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.
Everybody’s afraid of something.
You cant expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?