William W. Klein > Quotes

“No mechanical system of rules will ever help one understand correctly all the implications or nuances in the three words “I love you” as spoken by a teenage girl to her boyfriend, a husband to his wife of twenty-five years, a mother to her child, or an aging baby boomer to his mint-condition ’57 Chevy.”
― William W. Klein, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation

“The books of the Bible are literary pieces, carefully crafted to achieve their purposes, not transcripts or merely cut-and-paste collections put together naively, haphazardly, or even chronologically.”
― William W. Klein, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation