Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

Not to remember is not an option.

There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.