I’m out of practice and haven’t written much lately, so you’ll have to settle for this odd review. But how does one write a good review for a bad book?

Sir Nicholas George Winton (Wertheimer) saved 669 children.

Methodologies of Linguistics: From Dialectology to Dialectics, though undoubtedly an academic read, turned out to be both fascinating and surprisingly accessible.

I have a specific impression when reading medieval literature: the more I read, the stupider I seem to get. I pay the price of losing grey cells for each medieval story.

Though I shamefully admit that, apart from the quotes included in the book, I’ve never actually read the works of Bruno Schulz, I am utterly captivated by gnostic worlds. Literature placed in the role of God, as the source of understanding the World. Reading Professor Jocz's book gives one the impression that Bruno Schulz founded his own religion.

This made me reflect that cancer doesn’t actually kill anyone—it merely accelerates what time does to all of us.

I didn't find a single word with which I disagreed, in my soul, after every line I thought: how smart I am, at the age of twenty…

Only perverse, neurotic individuals with sexual deviations find their place in the field of linguistics.

Mrs. Renata, you are guilty of something. The world of your specialization is simply too narrow for me.

The behavior of Tristan and Iseult could be viewed as the drunken antics of two alcoholics.

Eroticism and intersexuality, especially intelligence deemed unbecoming for a Woman, shown more closely in La Fugue.

Mausers from 1896 and the floating air of revolutionary solidarity.

She loves to manipulate—or, perhaps, everything we know about her is a lie, an illusion, merely the imagination of a schizophrenic.

  I studied the nine-volume work of Professor Dr. Tzvi Hirsch Graetz for six months.

The most famous Zionist, who wasn’t a Zionist. Nor a communist. Nor Hitler, or Stalin. An overwhelming amount of goodness.

Joseph Bédier's Chanson de Roland is the most repulsive book my good Jewish hands have ever held.

Holding the thin collection of French short stories in my hand, I felt as though I were holding a lost diary.

You can’t resist him as a cockroach clown. He has the charm of a little rat. And in those outfits—this character is adorable.

How do we know that evil is bad, if it doesn't bring us destructive suffering? Perhaps, the world is entirely different than we perceive it.

As for Wall Street itself, each of us is a degenerate materialist. Great fortunes are rarely noble, but poverty even more rarely.