And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.