A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.
Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
No one man is superior to the game.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
