Bad literature is a form of treason.

I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.

I'm a bad Jew, a bad Russian, a bad everything.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.