From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too.