Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

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, principle is desire. Gravity, light, magnetism, thought may be aspects of the same universal longing. Suffering, emptiness, darkness are nothing more than interruptions of a cosmic orgasm that grows forever in intensity...

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

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

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.

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.