The New England Conscience Doesn't Keep You

There Is A Quiet Humor In Yiddish And A Gratitude For Every Day Of Life, Every Crumb Of Success, Each Encounter Of Love... In A Figurative Way, Yiddish Is The Wise And Humble Language Of Us All, The Idiom Of A Frightened And Hopeful Humanity.

When Literature Becomes Overly Erudite, It Means That Interest In The Art Has Gone And Curiosity About The Artist Is What's Important. It Becomes A Kind Of Idolatry.

A Story To Me Means A Plot Where There Is Some Surprise... Because This Is How Life Is Full Of Surprises.

I Have Heard From My Father And Mother All The Answers That Faith In God Could Offer To Those Who Doubt And Search For The Truth. In Our Home And In Many Other Homes The Eternal Questions Were More Actual Than The Latest News In The Yiddish Newspaper. In Spite Of All The Disenchantments And All My Skepticism I Believe That The Nations Can Learn Much From Those Jews, Their Way Of Thinking, Their Way Of Bringing Up Children, Their Finding Happiness Where Others See Nothing But Misery And Humiliation.

As Often As Herman Had Witnessed The Slaughter Of Animals And Fish, He Always Had The Same Thought: In Their Behavior Toward Creatures, All Men Were Nazis.