The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
Anatole BroyardThere are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.
Anatole BroyardThe first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
Anatole BroyardRuefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
Anatole Broyard