Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.