There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.