Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

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

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

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

What a strange power there is in clothing.

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.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

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

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...