Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

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

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

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.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.