American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.