The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.

War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.