Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

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

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

"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. "

"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. "

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

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

"When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. "