And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

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.