Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.