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

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

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

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.