We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know" or "I didn't know." Then comes a period, followed by "Am I my brother's keeper?"

It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.