"If one can pursue two courses simultaneously, why not a dozen? An infinite number? It verges on a sort of science fic…"

"I am a poet largely because poetry verges closely on mythic power...The fool is the one who insists on his truth to t…"

"America is, after all, the only Jewish community outside of Israel that is surviving. British Jewry is stagnant, dyin…"

"It could be fairly said that I disagree with the old, false romanticism about Judaism. In practice, Orthodox Judaism …"

"I myself tell people that Israel is the only place that Jews can live where they don't have always to be thinking abo…"

"When I was eighteen, I joined the British army for four years. I served in Egypt and the western desert: Palestinian …"

"Here in Israel, of course, every generation backs away from its parents. Rebels against the old. That has always been…"

"I've spoken a few times at Peace Now rallies. I am generally against the right wing taking over. But I think I exert …"

"The Ashkenazic West is more ideological; the Sephardim are, I think, more easy, more human. They don't disown their o…"

"I am opposed to our keeping all of the West Bank. It's plain that the time has not yet come for Arabs and Jews to be …"