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I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it, or you will never know what's beyond it.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?