If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the international group of religious people - that everybody who is religious is taking up their cause. It would help them a lot if we give them courage, and that in itself is enough.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.