What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
“It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.”
“There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.”