As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.