
Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

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

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

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

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

Look, you're either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist: there's no middle way. Everyone who supports the state of Israel is a Zionist.

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

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.