“ It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice. Chaim Potok
“ All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality i… Chaim Potok
“ …everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. Chaim Potok
“ For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings goo… Chaim Potok
“ Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be interesting and was certainly not worth the trouble of remembering… Chaim Potok
“ I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righ… Chaim Potok
“ Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand what he meant. I did not feel I had to justify anything... I did not want to pain… Chaim Potok
“ How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live a… Chaim Potok
“ Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way. Chaim Potok
“ I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.Lurie, if… Chaim Potok
“ > Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious. Chaim Potok
“ It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth. Chaim Potok
“ I like his optimism,' I said. 'I like the way when he and some other rabbis saw a jackal in the ruins of Jerusalem, and the others began to cry, he laughed and said that just as the prophecy of the de… Chaim Potok
“ Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriot… Chaim Potok
