Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

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

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

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

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