It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

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

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.