I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!"

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

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.

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.