This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.