And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

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

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.