The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

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

What nature creates has eternity in it.

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

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