“... whichever of my friends was and is sensitive, touchy even, had to choose... emigration... and I emigrated inwardly, here to the pub for example...”

“Emigrate or Degenerate.”

“Emigres: Earned their livelihood by giving guitar lessons and mixing salads.”

“Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.”

“Had I been brought to America a few years earlier, I might have written that in such and such a year my father emigrated, just as I would state what he did for a living, as a matter of family history. Happening when it did, the emigration became of the most vital importance to me personally. All the processes of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development took place in my own soul. I felt the pang, the fear, the wonder, and the joy of it. I can never forget, for I bear the scars. But I want to forget - sometimes I long to forget.”

“Die Emigration kann ein Zeichen der Stärke oder der Schwäche einer Nation sein.”