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.

Every moment is a new beginning.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.