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.

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.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

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