I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

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 dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.