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

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.

How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.

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.

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 not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.