As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

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

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you.

Naughty, nasty, associal, discouraged - online space.

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.