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

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

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

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

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.

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

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.