Quotes from Joshua Halberstam

Give people a break. It's not easy doing a life.

If you want to tell the truth, write fiction

Panic isn't the fear of danger, but the fear you can't control your fear, and

A man is what he is, not what he used to be. —Yiddish proverb

Long ago, I conquered my anger and placed it in my pocket. When I have need of it, I take it out.

The monster always represents the disruption of categories, the destruction of boundaries

Well, that started me on the path out. I realized my religious tradition couldn't account for everything, not even everything sacred.

The romanticization of nature was idol worship, he inveighed, the deification of the created over the Creator.