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.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

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

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 am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

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