Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

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

Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

What I do, I want to do with all my being.

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

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.