If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.