There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.

I believe in free will. I have no choice.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

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