...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.