What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.

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

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.