Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.
There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything.
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Whenever I’m in trouble, I pray. And because I’m in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
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.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they’re the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.
The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.
Children read books, not reviews. They don’t give a hoot about critics.
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.