I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

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.

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.

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

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.