There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

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

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.