At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

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.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

Love who you are. Love and be what you want to be.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.

I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

A true friend holds you accountable to your best self.

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.