“I try time and again to find the right words, the right tone. I start to write or speak of what is evident — 'It's horrible!' — and I see very quickly that my language is leading me down the wrong path and is about to strangle me. It doesn’t know where to go next. Because the conclusion of my interlocutor is more precise and more accusing. What is expected of me, when I am summoned to speak, is never simply to voice my emotion or my pain, but always for me to launch an appeal. I am summoned in order in turn to summon a third party to act: the Jews or the Arabs, the UN, the World, God, the Pope, the Red Cross. Without simultaneously leveling an accusation and call to action, to simply speak the horror is never enough.”