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]

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

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.