What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.