… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

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

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

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.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.