If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

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

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

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

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

It's more fun to watch without joining in.