Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

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

What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.

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

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.