#Jewish

"I don't care what is written,"Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag."

"I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor."

"Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level."

"I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too."

"Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely."