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

I believe in free will. I have no choice.

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.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

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

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