An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.