I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.