I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They were the people of The Book in the truest sense of the word. They knew of no greater joy than the study of man and human relations, which they called Torah, Talmud, Mussar, Cabala.

Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.

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