[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.

We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

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.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.