I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

Something that is yours forever is never precious

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

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.