Quotes by Chaim Potok

I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how were brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a universal without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

“Truth has to be given in riddles. People cant take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.”