Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

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

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

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