Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

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

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

No human being is illegal.

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.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.