Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.

The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

If there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order of succession), it is the change in both the manifest and latent purpose behind the effort.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.