I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

Questions outlive the answers.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.