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.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.