Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.