I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.