Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.

The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?"

And the answer: "Where was man?