My mum was Jewish. Maybe I'm a really bad Jew because I'm always so excited to say that I am, but I don't live and breathe the religion.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

What is left to a Jew who refuses the religious community? Antisemitism and history. In short order I experienced plenty of both.

Whether Jews like it or not, they are a peculiar people. They can't ever hope to be judged by the same standards which are used for other people.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself

Though U.S. Jews were quick to protest the Knesset's attempt to define "who is a Jew," it is a definition we are obsessed with.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

You know what's been my downfall? Jews censoring me. Okay? Arrogance and hatred for my fellow man propel me forward. That's the only thing that keeps me getting out of bed. If it wasn't for arrogance and my hatred for you, I would be in bed all day.

I don’t want to stay in a place that calls itself a Jewish community but is the propaganda office of a government. I am against those who want to ‘Israelianize’ Judaism.

I am a critic of Zionism. The more I read about it the more critical I am of it.

You are a man with complicated beliefs, who does not accept everything you are told. You decide how you are defined. Don’t surrender that to them. They will gleefully take the chance to define you, if you allow it.

It’s outrageous that they claim the mantle of Judaism, while in my view they trespass some of the most basic post-enlightenment Jewish values. I come at it from a fierce Jewish-pugilistic perspective.