Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.