The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.