For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

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

In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.