Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

I essentially write for myself.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

I was a terrible English student.

Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.