Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

So because you are converting it, you are winning back your time.

I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.

If our country got along with Russia, that would be a great thing.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.

Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

It becomes part of a person's second nature; he belongs to the church, like he belongs to his family, and he does not quit his family because someone in it turns out to be a rascal.