I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

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

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.