With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a….

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz..

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better..

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality..

I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I….

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man..

Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political sl….

I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of nobl….

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there..

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated..

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance..

Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are all post-synchroni….

'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off..

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him..

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried..

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there..

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit..

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you..