Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Write a page a day. It will add up.

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.