I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

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.

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