It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

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.

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

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.