I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

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

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

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

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.