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

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

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

It's more fun to watch without joining in.

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

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