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.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended.

I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.