Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.