Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.