As You Grow Older You Will Discover

I Won't Talk To You About My Family And You Won't Talk To Me About Yours. Family Talk Is Either Boring Or Self-pitying. Or It's Gothic, Like A Faulkner Novel. Who Needs To Talk About It? It's Enough To Live It.

There Is In My Work A Very Strong Religious Foreground And Background. In The Later Work Some Of That Tends To Diminish, But It's Certainly Present In The Early Work.

… The World Will Indulge You Just So Long Asher Lev. Then It Will Stop. You Will Simply Have To Grow Accustomed To That Truth.

Each Generation Thinks It Fights New Battles. But The Battles Are The Same. Only The People Are Different.

Truth Has To Be Given In Riddles. People Can't Take Truth If It Comes Charging At Them Like A Bull. The Bull Is Always Killed. You Have To Give People The Truth In A Riddle, Hide It So They Go Looking For It And Find It Piece By Piece; That Way They Learn To Live With It.