From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

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.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.