Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

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.

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.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.