“'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air att...” — Tom Reiss Quote

“'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air attack.”

“My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated, educated European and Russian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - is lost, and is not mourned enough.”

“For me, history is always personal. And it's how your personal history interacts with the history of your time. I'm very attracted to characters who were cursed, as the Chinese say, to live in interesting times.”

“With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.”

“We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.”

“The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.”