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

I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .