What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.
I tried for awhile 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.
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
[on President Reagan's annual budget cuts to the arts] Every profession has its John Wilkes Booth. Ours is Reagan.