It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.