I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?