Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

Stay true to yourself yet always be open to learn. Work hard and never give up on your dreams even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions but its always justified in their head.

If you don't know exactly where you're going, how will you know when you get there?

After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.

The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.