What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.

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

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.