“Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”

“Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. ”

“It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.”

“The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth”

“People know what they want because they know what other people want.”

“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”

“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”