It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

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

Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.