When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

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.

No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.