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.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.