every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

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.

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.