The binding agent of the world is love.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
“So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know.”
"Rabbit wonders how many animals have died to keep his life going, how many more will die. A barnyard full, a farm full of thumping hearts, seeing eyes, racing legs, all stuffed squawking into him as into a black sack. No avoiding it; life does want death. To be alive is to kill."
"This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time."
“Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said, ‘In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me: ‘Why were you not Zusya?'”
"If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life." ("Si nada nos salva de la muerte, al menos que el amor nos salve de la vida.")