I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice