In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.