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.

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

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

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

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

The world invited me many places.