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

The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.

My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.