I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.