For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

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

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.