The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.