If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

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

Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations.