A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.
The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.