I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the ta….

I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distract….

My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy betwe….

I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on t….

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize..

I'm interested in the ongoing war between the individual and community. That inner dissent against whatever group is surrounding you. No one wants to….

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion..

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees direct….

I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs. ….

This book, 'Free bird', is so entangled with politics. I wanted to channel my own internal political monologue in some way to get it out of my brain.….

I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as Jewish in my own feelings about mys….

Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into..

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a con….

The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginab….

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atroci….

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much mor….

As a book person and a movie person, I feel Jewish. My Dad was more Buddhist than anything, and on the West Coast I've often had the impression that ….

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money..

I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful..