A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies

from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.

Most of my money remains in England, although my unworthy carcass may not under usual circumstances ...

God did not call us to make history; God called us to be history!

Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway.