Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.