Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but a creative artist. The greatest of all. And what characterises artists is that they want to redo their work. Maybe it didn't come off perfectly, so they want to see it done again, and improved. Reincarnation is a way for God to improve his earlier works.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.