“Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.”
“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin")”
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
“Jesus, Mary and Joseph”
“Authentic religion teaches one to imagine the other -- to consider another's vulnerability and humanity. The beginning of ethics is this trancendent imagination' (Ingrid Mattson). The message, she said, to be expounded by preacher and politician alike is that all human beings possess a God-given dignity.”
“We belong to the race that knows Joseph”