It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block?

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.