A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has to cry-even if it's a writer, 20 years later.