"Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?"
"At moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, princ..."
"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."
"But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. Th..."
"Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated f..."
"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together."
"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
"When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole w..."
"Life is God's Novel. Let Him write it. -Isaac Bashevis Singer"
- -Isaac Bashevis Singer