We Need To Listen To One Another.

... An Artist Is A Person First. He Is An Individual. If There Is No Person, There Is No Artist.

The Span Of A Man's Life - That Is Nothing. But What A Man Makes Of That Span - That Is Something. A Man Must Make His Own Meaning For Life. Meaning Is Not Automatically Given To Life.

To The Extent That I Come From A Deeply Religious Tradition And Have Been Contending With Those Beginnings All Of My Life - That Constitutes The Subject Of Much Of My Early Fiction.

It Is When You Are Angry That You Must Watch How You Talk.

My Name Is Asher Lev... I Am A Traitor, An Apostate, A Self-hater, An Inflicter Of Shame Upon My Family, My Friends, My People; Also, I Am A Mocker Of Ideas Sacred To Christians, A Blasphemous Manipulator Of Modes And Forms Revered By Gentiles For Two Thousand Years.