I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.