One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.