For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

When adults wage war, children perish.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.