Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here..

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly..

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

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in..

The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They were the people of….

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man..

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins..

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with….

I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or che….

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique..

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were ….

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly..

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

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation..

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics..

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utter….

Shoulders are from God and burdens too..

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer..

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory..

There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free….

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality..