I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.