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.

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.

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

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

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

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.

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.