I write to understand as much as to be understood. - Elie Wiesel

"That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal."

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

"Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write."

"That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal."

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."