The Jewish Wisdom Database

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

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

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Life is God's novel so let him write it.