Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.

In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea), but we lost quite a large amount of security. Because of all sorts of reasons, because of globalization which stripped the nation state of a large part of its sovereignty away, because of the dismantling of the so-called welfare state. As a result, people feel simultaneously much freer and much more insecure.

The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.

In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.