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

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.

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

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

It's more fun to watch without joining in.

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.