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

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

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

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

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.

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.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.