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

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.