A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

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

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.