We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.