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History Can Show You That It Was One Pile Of Bad Stuff After Another. It Can Also Show You That There's Been Tremendous Progress In Knowledge, Behaviour, Laws, Civilisation. It Cannot Show You That There Was A Meaning Behind It.

I Don't Believe That One Should Have One-size-fits-all Moral Rules For International Political Action.

I've Lost Count Of The Interviews I've Done About My Illness And Its Relationship To My Ideas And Writing.

Judaism For Me Is A Sensibility Of Collective Self-questioning And Uncomfortable Truth-telling. I Feel A Debt Of Responsibility To This Past. It Is Why I Am Jewish.

We Know What Things Cost But Have No Idea What They Are Worth.