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"Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community."
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"We are members of the Church of Christ."

"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."

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"We fatties have a bond, dude. It's like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center of the earth and we go down there in the middle of the night when all the skinny kids are sleeping and eat cake and friend chicken and shit. Why d'you think Hollis is still sleeping, kafir? Because we were up all night in the secret lair injecting butter frosting into our veins. ...A fatty trusts another fatty."

"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."

"Only the church can provide people with quality fellowship."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."

"One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked."

"My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life."

"Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office."

"Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day."

"Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent."

"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

"I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love."

"The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible."
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