The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.