I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.