Who said “A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a…”?

“Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.”

“That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.”

“I determine who is a Jew.”

“Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?”

“Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.”

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

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

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

“Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.”

“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.”