While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

The still, sad music of humanity.

All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

I tried to be normal once... worst two minutes of my life.