When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.