Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.