Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.

Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money.