Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.