Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

Every moment contains a spark of eternity.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.