Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told…

- Shalom Auslander

...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor relig…

- Shalom Auslander

Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

- Shalom Auslander

Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments tha…

- Shalom Auslander

Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van driv…

- Shalom Auslander

His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life, that was …

- Shalom Auslander

Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.

- Shalom Auslander

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

- Shalom Auslander

It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just…

- Shalom Auslander