I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
It wasn’t until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me… That’s when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
You show up at high school, there’s all these kids you don’t know, and you’re terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don’t want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
I fought tooth and nail: I didn’t want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn’t want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
As a teenager, I was undeveloped and out of touch. The arts was another arena in which to do combat and challenge myself. I read difficult books like James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses,’ but I didn’t really understand it, and no one was going to call me on it because I was 16. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
Munmun’ happened because the human world’s dizzying inequality – of wealth and of power – had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better. Jesse Andrews Read Quote
