He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.