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

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Peace is our gift to each other.

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)