I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it. — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I made one choice, for example, which is I'm just going to confine work to working hours. I'm not going to work on the… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you obey (and… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy. — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.” — David Plotz Copy Share Image
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