It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

You are the instrument of your own illumination.

What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right sentence, nothing feels as good.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.