Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.