Literature is the memory of humanity.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

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

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

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.