The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

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

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?