Writers complete their works, whether those be thousands of pages long or just a few laconic lines. - Imre Kertész

On the other hand, what is really irrational and what truly cannot be explained is not evil but, contrarily, the good.

Nothing upsets me as much as a shop window jammed full of objects; such windows literally depress, sadden, even demoralize me.

Auschwitz, I told her, appears to me in the image of a father; yes, the two terms, Auschwitz, and father, resonate the same echoes in me, and if the observation is that God is an exalted father, then God, too is revealed to me in the image of Auschwitz.