I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].

We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history in the Bible until Josiah.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.