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.

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

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

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

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

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.