To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.