I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

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

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.