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.

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

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

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.

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