Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)