What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

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 always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

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?

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.