The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

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.

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

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