I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.