You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Ihate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.

To build is to make the invisible visible.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

The Holocaust is not something you can describe; it's something you can only survive.