God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

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.