For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine is more interpretive. But it is the love for the text that is there, and that is what makes the whole adventure of reading and studying and sharing worthwhile.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.