Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.

A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

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