It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people….

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth..

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the insi….

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven..

He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, h….

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist..

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge..

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found….

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms..

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art..

I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinne….

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan p….

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about….

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own..

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism..

You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes-sometimes it cries….

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two.

Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose….

Something that is yours forever is never precious.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life..

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either ….