Isaac Bashevis Singer

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

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.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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 cannot dwell together.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

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

When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.

When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.