I was working as a journalist for an Israeli paper in Paris, and my salary at the highest was fifty dollars a month. At the end of the month I always had palpitations; I didn't know how to pay my rent. Even after the war, I was often hungry. But that's part of the romantic condition of a student. To be a student in Paris and not be hungry is wrong.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel… As a Jew I see my role as a melitz yosher, a defender of Israel: I defend even her mistakes… I must identify with whatever Israel does – even with her errors.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.