When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

Audiences are audiences.

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.