For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.