In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.