No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

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

What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.