Old saws have no teeth.

Time at length becomes justice.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.