Israel today is bad for the Jews.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

Reality is a powerful solvent.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.