did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons in the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's [woman's] right to live.

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

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

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.