If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

I respect scholarship. But I don't like to do things half-heartedly.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Think higher, feel deeper.

I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.