Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

There are no uncontaminated angels