Art Is A Person's Private Vision Expressed

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

I Will Go Wherever The Truth Leads Me. It Is Secular Scholarship, Rebbe; It Is Not The Scholarship Of Tradition. In Secular Scholarship There Are No Boundaries And No Permanently Fixed Views.” Lurie, If The Torah Cannot Go Out Into Your World Of Scholarship And Return Stronger, Then We Are All Fools And Charlatans. I Have Faith In The Torah. I Am Not Afraid Of Truth.

In Russia I Went To A Great Yeshiva, And In America I Work In A Carnival.

If I Had A Plot That Was All Set In Advance, Why Would I Want Go Through The Agony Of Writing The Novel? A Novel Is A Kind Of Exploration And Discovery, For Me At Any Rate.

Art Is A Person's Private Vision Expressed In Aesthetic Forms.