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

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.

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

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 am a book I neither wrote nor read.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.