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.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

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

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

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.