A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.