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.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

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.

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