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

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

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.

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

Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.

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