Isaac Bashevis Singer

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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 motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

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 have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.