“Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.”

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

“What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?”

“Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.”

“What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.”