For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
Elie WieselI wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.
Elie WieselSimply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
Elie WieselI have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.
Elie WieselI am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.
Elie Wiesel