Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

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

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.