Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them, look, no matter what, you must have hope. You must. When I invoke Camus, who said when there is no hope, you must invent hope. . .hope is something that is not what God gives us. It's like peace. It's a gift that one can give to one another. Only another person can push me to despair. And only another person can push me to hope. Its my choice.

In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.