The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering..

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology..

You see in others who you are..

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages..

A man had to learn, it was his nature..

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers..

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you..

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all bi….

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in th….

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game..

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange ….

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be….

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know..

I fix what's broken - except in the heart..

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was..

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride..

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined….

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune..

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know..