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.

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.