My literary success meant nothing to me

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

The world is a penal institution.