You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

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