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 storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.

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