Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

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.

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

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.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.