Reality is a powerful solvent.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

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

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

We are the totality of what we consume, in every way possible.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

If family or friends are unwell or ill - it's perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.