“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”

“I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?”

“You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

“Wow, that was fun. Any place else you want to take me while we’re here? Maybe there’s a darker corner of hell than that hall of flesh-hungry demons, huh? (Sin)”

“I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.”

“I the Mountain take,
Bearing my aged Father on my Back.”

“All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.”

“Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, "My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way."”