When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.

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.

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

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

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

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