This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.

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

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.