Quotes By Leon Wieseltier

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.

The world invited me many places.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.