Audiences are audiences.

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.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

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.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

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