“I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.”

“Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.”

“And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may b...”