When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

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

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

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

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

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.