That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.