Jonathan Raymond Quotes

My whole life has a Jewish flavour.

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

Being "Jewish" is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.

The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and Gentile, believer and aethiest, tick. Without the Jews, we would see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings ... we would think with a different mind, interpret all our experience differently, draw different conclusions from the things that befall us. And we would set a different course for our lives.

I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.

On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.

I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.

I didn't emphasize my Jewishness because I wanted to. I just happen to have been raised in a family where everybody happened to talk like this, so why would I talk like somebody else?

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

My whole British culture in growing up is still with me for sure. I'm very grateful for that.

Judaism is not just a religion but a people, and the food and customs of one part of the people is connected to the other part of the people. They are part of a larger story.

Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to be of a certain Southern culture and a certain age, and his talents and tastes had been molded accordingly.

Judaism is a big part of my background, obviously, and my reality.

When it comes to being Jewish, I can't help myself.