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I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to...

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

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