I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

One person of integrity can make a difference.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.