“With such an exceptional, international career, you’d think the sign in front of his arts center would have ‘Baryshnikov’ in lights, but actually you can barely see it. ‘Misha didn’t want this place to be called the Baryshnikov Arts Center,’ says Georgiana Pickett the center’s executive director. ‘He wanted it to be more global, and some wise people told him, “That’s not a good idea. Let’s put your name on it.”‘”
The Art Of Witness: How Primo Levi Survived
“Primo Levi did not consider it heroic to have survived eleven months in Auschwitz. … But we who have survived relatively little find it hard to believe him. How could it be anything but heroic to have entered Hell and not been swallowed up? To have witnessed it with such delicate lucidity, such reserves of irony and even equanimity?”