I wish that your journey will be to a light not only for yourself but for all of us. I wish that it will be a journey for the sake of heaven. I give you my blessing, Asher Lev.
I felt a sudden momentary sense of unreality, as if the play yard, with its black asphalt floor and its white base lines, were my entire world now, as if all the previous years of my life had led me s...
Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There i...
Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.
Do not expect redemption if you enter the world of art. Redemption is death to art. Tranquillity is the poison the artist takes when he is ready to give up his art.
And then I was crying too, crying with Danny, silently, for his pain and for the years of his suffering, knowing that I loved him, and not knowing whether I hated or loved the long, anguished years of...
And now you’ll be able to sail right through to the end. I’ve already written the end. It was the beginning I couldn’t write. The story you just told me is part of your beginning? It is the myself tha...
A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can co...
We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto.
There is never an end to our work. It is not given to us to complete it. Who completes his work? That is the way of the world, Asher. Only the Master of the Universe completed His work. And it is said...
Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. RAINER MARIA RILKE
Obstacles are given us in order to make our desire even stronger. The more a thing is hidden from man, the more he desires it, and the greater the chance he will one day discover it.
It's my world, best friend. And I haven't seen anything outside that's better.
I told her of a letter Camille Pissarro once wrote to his son about Monet’s dealers, who were insisting he exhibit only one kind of painting, the one that had become very popular with collectors. The...
I cannot have gone through what I went through and have lost what I lost if it’s all meaningless.
How do I convince him that the way we study Talmud is not a threat?''But it is a threat, Reuven. I just told you it is a threat. In the hands of those who do not love the tradition it is a dangerous w...
Go to sleep, Asher. You’ve had a difficult day. A difficult day? I didn’t do a thing all day! For you, my husband, that is the most difficult kind of day you can have.
Disorder and frequent sorrow the mulch for creativity.
Can you understand what it means for something to be incomplete? my mother had once asked me. I understood, I understood.