In charismatic relationships there is no responsibility, only guilt; in more developed relationships, responsibility is present. With charisma there … - Shulamith Hareven

A group of intellectuals can unwittingly become an arrogant anti-intellectual group if it does not give a good shake once in a while to itself and its vocabulary, from the bottom up. It can become anti-intellectual if it is no longer able to live with ambiguity and cannot bring itself to say "I have no answer," "We do not know."

Food is a world view. It is the real relationship between man and his environment; it is enjoying all this bounty, or forcing and being forced. ("On Being a Levantine")

I write about Israeli experience, and that experience, being so intense and concentrated, is probably a good background for distilling human experience anywhere.