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

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

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.

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?

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.