My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

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.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice