Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.