"The thing I wanted to show is that numbers are exactly like words. Everybody knows that you can make words say whatever you want them to say. Numbers are the same. I wanted to say that there is nothing objective, no truth in numbers. There is a quotation of Simone de Beauvoir: “There are words as murderous as gas chambers.” After the liberation of France, there was a trial of a journalist who was a collaborator. He wrote many things against Jews, including giving addresses where people were hiding. These were just words. But there are words that are murderous. It’s just the same with numbers."