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I'm a Jew.

I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

I'm a Jew. I think every Jew is dark in certain ways.

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.