To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

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.

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.