Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

Everybody is somebody's Jew.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

He kissed it better, ” she told them.

Build a House for men and birds.Sit with them and play music.For a day, for just one day, talk about that which disturbs no oneand bring some peace, my friend, into your beautiful eyes.

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner.

I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.