My wife believes in it not one whit, but is scrupulous in its observance, said Charles Leiden, sipping from his glass. A curious state of affairs, don't you think? We are kosher, Fermi probably attend...
Some troubles do not go away as we grow older. They grow older with us.
Without stories there is nothing. Stories are the world’s memory. The past is erased without stories.
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something....
Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.
An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.
A choice tells the world what is most important to a human being. When a man has a choice to make he chooses what is most important to him, and that choice tells the world what kind of a man he is.
Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.
Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.
Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans,...
An artist is a person first.
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
Weeks of longing and solitude: twin muses of creation.
Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool...
A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.
Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul
… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.
True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. —BEN JONSON
One derives great moral strength from a cup of coffee, I said.
It's only a book. But what it means to write a book.