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

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.