The Collected Stories Quotes

“Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.”
― Leonard Michaels, The Collected Stories

“In 1982, Raphael Nachman, visiting lecturer in mathematics at the university in Cracow, declined the tour of Auschwitz, where his grandparents had died, and asked instead to visit the ghetto where they had lived.”
― Leonard Michaels, The Collected Stories

“Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.”
― Leonard Michaels, The Collected Stories

“So clumsy, yet her dinner parties were splendid, prepared at unbelievable speed. She hated to cook. Chewing gum, cigarettes, candy, drugs, alcohol, and taxicabs took her from Monday to Friday.”
― Leonard Michaels, The Collected Stories