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Our world may be a waiting room, but it is a crowded one, filled with people shouting, singing and whispering words that those sitting right beside them only rarely understand. Perhaps the World to Come is best understood not as an afterlife, but as the future — an unexpected place where possibilities will travel on rafts of language, ready for someone to draw them up onto dry land.

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How old we all are, eternally old, forever holding hands with the past.

You can’t write without inventing.

Interview with Tablet (2014)

Judaism is much bigger on commitment than fulfillment.

Interview with Jewish Women's Archive (2018)

It reminds me of that anemic element of the way I grew up in a community where it was like, here’s Jewish history: There was a shtetl, and there was a Holocaust, and now there’s Israel.

Interview with Tablet (2014)

"Censorship" is beside the point, the insane extremes of "cancel culture" extravagantly irrelevant, because this double helix of hate and art is built into our world. ("Commuting with Shylock")

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (2021)

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