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 BroyardSometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.
Anatole BroyardThe epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
Anatole BroyardWhen friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
Anatole Broyard