They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

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

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

A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.