Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

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

"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."

"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."