I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. And anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

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

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

What pains and hurts me most is the simultaneity of events. While we seat here and discuss how to behave morally, both individually and collectively, over ther…