The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.