We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.