In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

What a strange power there is in clothing.