Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

After all, God is God because he remembers.