Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.