Artists don't create society, they reflect it

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

You think I look like a teletubby?