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.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Income tax returns: the most imaginative fiction written today.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

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