What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

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

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.