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?

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.