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.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine is more interpretive. But it is the love for the text that is there, and that is what makes the whole adventure of reading and studying and sharing worthwhile.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

Every moment is a new beginning.