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

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

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