We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

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

Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

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.