The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.