Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.