God made man because he loves stories.

Framed as a theological aphorism, the line suggests that narrative is not an ornament of human life but one of its purposes. In Wiesel’s moral universe—shaped by Jewish tradition and by the imperative to bear witness after catastrophe—stories preserve memory, transmit values, and create human solidarity across time. The claim also reverses a common assumption: rather than humans inventing stories to explain God, God creates humans so that stories can be told. Read this way, storytelling becomes a sacred vocation, and listening an ethical act, because lives and histories survive through narration.