In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
“I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.”
“I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.”