Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.