When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

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.

Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.