When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward grati… - Elie Wiesel

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?