I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.