Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.