Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

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

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is dominating humankind. I cannot not remember that there were other times, of course [the Second World War]. I never compare.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.