People Usually Don't Allow You To Cut

You Don't Need To Use The Language Of God To Ask Where The Restrooms Are.

The Fact Is That Everything I Have In My Pockets Is Carefully Chosen So I’ll Always Be Prepared. Everything Is There So I Can Be At An Advantage At The Moment Of Truth. Actually, That’s Not Accurate. Everything’s There So I Won’t Be At A Disadvantage At The Moment Of Truth.

And She Loved A Man Who Was Made Out Of Nothing. A Few Hours Without Him And Right Away She’d Be Missing Him With Her Whole Body, Sitting In Her Office Surrounded By Polyethylene And Concrete And Thinking Of Him. And Every Time She’d Boil Water For Coffee In Her Ground-floor Office, She’d Let The Steam Cover Her Face, Imagining It Was Him Stroking Her Cheeks, Her Eyelids And She’d Wait For The Day To Be Over, So She Could Go To Her Apartment Building, Climb The Flight Of Stairs, Turn The Key In The Door, And Find Him Waiting For Her, Naked And Still Between The Sheets Of Her Empty Bed.

I Think That Becoming A Parent Kind Of Made Me Try To Be More Responsible. And It Made Me Much More Stressful.

What Connects Me So Strongly To Israel Is The Fact That I'm Second Generation. My Parents Said, "we Have A Place Where We Can Just Be Ourselves And Nobody Says, 'don't Tell Me Your Opinion, You Damn Jew, Go Somewhere Else.'" Then You Go To This Country And Other Jews Tell You To Shut Up. It's Frustrating. I Think That We Have A Bad Government And That Some People Are Fearful. They're Going With The Class Bully. But I Really Truly Believe - You Read It In My Stories - That Deep Inside, People Have Goodness.