You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

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.

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

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

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match it. I feel safe, excited, at peace, erotic, centered. Nothing can touch me.