Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.