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.

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.

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

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.

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