When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists.

Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

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)