A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.