“Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.”

“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.”

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.”

“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.”

“They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)”

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”