Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.