The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.