"What is the point of a book if it doesn't lead you to a new world?"

"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it?"

"I have not been able to write a single line for two months. My head is empty, my heart is empty, my soul is empty."

"The Messiah will come only when he is no longer needed; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last."