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

Even paranoids have real enemies.

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

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.