I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

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

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

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

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.