You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

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