I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

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

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.