I am very snobby. My family is Orthodox so I would never go to a Reform rabbi.

The Jewish religion has it completely right in maintaining you should think very carefully about what you eat.

I wanted to be a great literary novelist so that people would eventually talk about Alan Coren the scribbler and father of the great Giles.

My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but as far as I was concerned he wasn't famous enough…

What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.

I've never been much smitten by Catholicism. I've never been committed to any religious dogma of any sort. ... For years the Catholics had me on their blacklis…

Each nation has created a god, and the god has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved, and he invariably found on the side…