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

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

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 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.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

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

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