The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.