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.
From Isaac Bashevis Singer
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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.
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.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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