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.

God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.

All that God does is for the good.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

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

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

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.