The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.