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.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

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

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.