The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.