You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes-sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.

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

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

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

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.