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.

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

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

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

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.

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