My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too. And another one replaced it, and that one is no longer the original text. These are questions that perturb me much more than whether it's history or not history.

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.