Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

The danger lies in forgetting.

What I do, I want to do with all my being.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.