'For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.'

'Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.'

'Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.'

'Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.'

'I see the whole world open before me; the only place that remains sealed off is Poland, and suddenly I feel the atmosphere so close about me that at times it …

What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only…

After all, everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers h…