The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept thei….

All is foreseen but the choice is given..

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly….

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice canno….

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it b….

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would ….

What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that m….

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world..

All that God does is for the good..

We must believe in free will - we have no choice..

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in..

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day..

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it..

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is..

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive..

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but lea….

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge..

What a strange power there is in clothing..

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it..

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a k….

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises..