Around age twenty-six, in an effort to stave off thirty, I began embracing the new alternative angst bands, like Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Bush, Stone Temple Pilots, et cetera, but at thirty, little...
And as the room starts to fill with the first somber-faced neighbors coming to pay their respects, it becomes clear to me that the reason for filling the shiva house with visitors is most likely to pr...
Wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands.
You get married to get an ally against your family.
You could fill an airlift to Africa with all the food generated by one dead Jew.
There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go.
Solange unsere Gedanken nicht durch Scham oder Schuldgefühle gefiltert werden, sind sie selbstsüchtig oder lieblos und daher größtenteils zu keinem Zeitpunkt für den öffentlichen Konsum gedacht, da si...
It’s rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point.
It's hard to know where to start. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts. All you can ever really know i...
It was one of those playful arguments that we would carry with us unresolved into old age.
I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, Do you believe in God? Not really, he said. No.Then why do we come here?
He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to look at this propensity as a gift, then a curse, and now understands it to be just anot...
Good sex requires many different things, but in most cases, efficiency isn't one of them. - Judd Foxman
Even under the best of circumstances, there’s just something so damn tragic about growing up. Look
Dad is bent over me, fixing my wooden leg with a socket wrench.
Childhood feels so permanent,
But the truth is always a lot fuzzier, hiding in soft focus on the periphery.
At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.
And nothing can be resolved until each of you has come to appreciate the other's position
The only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all.