The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

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

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.