I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.