I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.