I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

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

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

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

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.