The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

I was never without a book in my hand.