Nationality isn't soul.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

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