The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.

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.

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

There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.