Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

"There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a d…"

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."

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

"I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken."

"Take three quarts of duck's milk..."

"Vegetarianism is my religion. I became a consistent vegetarian some twenty-three years ago. Before that, I would try over and over again. But it was sporadic. Finally, in the mid-1960s, I made up my m…"