You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

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

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

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

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

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

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happening [now] . . . Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.

In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights