No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

Writers speak stench.

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.