Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.