When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.- Isaac Bashevis Singer
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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.
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.
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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.
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
