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.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

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

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

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

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