Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.