You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.