The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise: Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he's loud and boisterous…

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient …