All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

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.