I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and now the stolen things are being returned to their owners, but I don't think their owners should be grateful to receive them.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.