Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

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

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.