The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

God has pity on kindergarten children

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.