A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?