“I could not bear to be away from the people.”
“But if they give you nothing?”
“They have nothing to give. Nothing but old Jews who believe and young Jews who cannot believe and are nothing.”
“It is the same everywhere. The Christians do not believe either.”
“But they are fools and can make themselves happy with their cinemas and their newspapers and their forward women.”
“I thought you liked women, Harry.”
“I don’t like women who like me. . . . I don’t want to marry, I don’t want anything. I shall see the old people into their graves, and then I don’t know what I shall do. You are the only one I know who has anything to live for or any life in him.”
“I have little enough.”
“Oh God! don’t you start talking like me, or we shall all go to the cemetery at once.”