Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.

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

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.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.