I am very troubled by this horrible issue of "who is a Jew?" I'm very simplistic about it. I ask, if Hitler were here, would he consider me a Jew? And of course he'd say yes, and that's the end of that. If we were all in line to go to Auschwitz, would the Orthodox pull us out of line and say, "You're not a Jew"?

They who in trouble untroubled are
Will trouble trouble itself.

With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.

It was his belief that a witty answer turneth away wrath and that the oil of reason should always be poured on troubled waters.