Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

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

A man can laugh while he suffers.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.

Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories