They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

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.

What nature creates has eternity in it.

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.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.