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

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

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.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.