“My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.”
“My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus . . . I rhyme.”
“Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...”
“One of my first reservations about Zionism was and is that, semiconsciously at least, it grants the anti-Semite's first premise about the abnormality of the Jew.”
“My mother painted with water," he says. "And my father played with fire.”
“My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt.”