I believe in free will. I have no choice.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

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

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

I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.