As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

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

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

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 pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

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.