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.

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

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.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

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