Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.