Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.