As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

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.

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

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.

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