I Am Not Merely A Habitual Quoter

We Use Books Like Mirrors, Gazing Into Them Only To Discover Ourselves.

I Am Afraid I Am One Of Those People Who Continues To Read In The Hope Of Sometime Discovering In A Book A Single—and Singular—piece Of Wisdom So Penetrating, So Soul Stirring, So Utterly Applicable To My Own Life As To Make All The Bad Books I Have Read Seem Well Worth The Countless Hours Spent On Them. My Guess Is That This Wisdom, If It Ever Arrives, Will Do So In The Form Of A Generalization.

The Decisive Moment In The Defeat Of Upper Class, Capital-s, Society May Have Come When, In Newspapers All Over The Nation, What Used To Be Call The Society Page Was Replaced By The Style Section.

One Of The Pleasures Of Being A Jew, I Don't Have To Tell You, It Allows You Anti-semitism.

My Wife Who Is Non-jewish Regrets It All The Time That I Can Say These Terrible Things About Fellow Jews And She Can't.