The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.