..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.