I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

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

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.