Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.