In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.
What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.
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.
Children?have no use for psychology.
Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.
When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.
A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.
Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
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.
The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.
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.
I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.
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