Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. 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.

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.