"My brain is no longer a hive buzzing with new ideas for novels. My body tells me that seventy isn’t the new fifty or sixty. The immutable truth is that I’m old."
"When I watched the January 6 riot unfold on television, I remember being glad my kids were in school; if they had been home, I would have turned it off."
"No more standing ovations for war criminals. No more empty warnings behind closed doors. And no more weapons for the collective punishment of an entire people."
Publishing this article now, in the midst of what the International Court of Justice has found to be a plausible genocide, functions primarily to highlight Jewish victimhood and erase Palestinian victimhood.