It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.