Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.
Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."
The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.