You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

• We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
• Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
• No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
• In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
• I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
• I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
• But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
• I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
• I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
• Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.