“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the ...” — A. B. Yehoshua Quote

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

We have to rethink the two-state solution.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.

I don't want it to be so complicated - promoters, a business plan, none of that.

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.