If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
Source: In NY Times, 30 Jun 85
-- Isaac Singer, (Jul 14 1904-1991), Polish-US novelist, short-story writer; He was the foremost Yiddish writer noted for his imagination, irony and wit, e.g., Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, 1983.