“All writers have concealed more than they revealed.”

“One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
But paradoxically, we create fiction out of human concern for the victims of the revelations. This concern is at the root of literature.”

“"It is more sinful to conceal the power of the atom than it is to reveal it." Statement, 9 March 1954. Quoted in Peter G Boyle's The Churchill-Eisenhower Correspondence 1953-55”

“A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.”

“[E]ven if a person excels in Torah and good deeds more than all his contemporaries, if he has not learned the secrets of Torah and the wisdom of truth, he must reincarnate in the world (…) Now the matter is clarified—the whole part of the revealed Torah is but a preparation to become worthy and merit attaining the concealed part. It is the concealed part that is very wholeness and the purpose for which man is created.”

“The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.”

“When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.”

“Epidemiology is like a bikini: what is revealed is interesting; what is concealed is crucial.”

“A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.”

“Strength is not energy. Some writers have more muscles than talent.”