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.

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

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.

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

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

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.