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.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.