The Believer

Here in this rich, safe, stupid country it is so easy to imagine oneself a hero.

Take the greatest Jewish minds ever — Marx, Freud, Einstein — what have they given us? Communism, infantile sexuality, and the atom bomb.

Well, with you there's a tragic dimension.

— You see, the Jews love to separate things. Holy from the profane, the meat from the milk, wool from the linen, Sabbath from the week, Jew from the gentile, as if one little scrap of this is going to completely contaminate that.
— Who gets contaminated, the Jews or the gentiles?
— That's a good question.