A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Everybody is somebody's Jew.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

The truth will only be told over a career.

But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.