People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Eros won't outlast duality. As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.

The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.

It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.