One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

Some stories are true that never happened.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?