We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.