I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text.

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

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.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

Love makes everything complicated.