There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

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

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

Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.