The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Anatole BroyardThe 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 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 BroyardThe first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
Anatole Broyard