Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.