There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation — purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always g… - Djuna Barnes

No matter where and when you meet him you feel that he has come from some place-no matter from what place he has come-some country that he has devoured rather than resided in, some secret land that he has been nourished on but cannot inherit, for the Jew seems to be everythere from nowhere.

Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world whose constituents, being alien, force the mind to succumb to an imaginary populace.

In the resurrection, when we come up looking backward at each other, I shall know you only of all that company.