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

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes ... Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.