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

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")

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

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

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

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.