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There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone's drunk and ugly and they're going to pass out in a few minutes.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,

It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty.

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,

Incorruptibility by money is the old story ... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

A wall of books is a wall of windows.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

The world invited me many places.

Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.