My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.

I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.