"The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or concious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away. " ~~ Elie Wiesel

"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. " ~~ Elie Wiesel

"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. " ~~ Elie Wiesel