What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.
Elie WieselExcept that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.
Elie WieselI'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.
Elie WieselI still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.
Elie Wiesel