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

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

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

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

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

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.