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.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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 …

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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…

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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…

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

All that God does is for the good.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer