What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.