Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

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.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

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

[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.