Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.

To be a Jew is a destiny

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.