The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.

Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.