Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.