I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.

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.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.